"Glad to take the 3 points"

Lighting is so important in modelling because you want the user to be able to see the creation clearly.

I used this object to demonstrate 3 point lighting. I used a key light, (to the top right), fill light, which fills the key lights shadows (top left), and a back light (behind).

It works really well, and by adjusting the colours of the lighting you can adjust the mood. The keylight is a warm colour and the fill light a cool colour.

This will all be essential when showing my model.

Rose to the challenge

This was a nice little process, starting with a cube, adding a subsurf to make it a basic rose shape. We then extruded the rose face to make it go round into a pretzel shape, duplicated the face and did the same slightly more outward.

Finally we added length to it and made it look more rose like, then a stalk and colour and there ya go!

Organic Extrusion

Here we are experimenting with organic extrusion (extended faces ourselves.) So I started with a UV sphere (18segs,18rings) and extended some faces on the left to make leg like shapes. Then I did it on the right. I extruded parts at the top to make eye like shapes, and then added fangs.

Before you say anything, it's not a spider. Eight legs wouldn't have fit in as well, so it is a 6 legged insect. Yeah.

D-I-S-C-O......

Again experimenting with light, I also added a person in the middle to boogie away.

I experimented with the overall lamp too and feel the darker image gives off more of the "right mood".

Come on baby light my fire.

Experimenting with spot lighting and colours.

Eggcelent...

I am actually appalled at what I've written, I think I've put egg on my face.
Going forward from the mountain tutorial I made this egg box and added a texture to make it a more realistic eggsample.
Seriously I am eggstremely sorry. I'm amazed no one has poached me yet, and sent all the kings horses and all the kings men after me. Or even buttered soldiers.

I better stop this before you boil over.
Anyway yeah I added some eggs, hence the puns...
Is it nice that I did this on Frieday.

Someone egged me on... maybe.

Hillsinki?

I flattened out the mountainside to make it more like a countryside. I imported some textures from google, using a flat plane for the sky.

There is an unusual shine coming from the lighting that makes it look less real... if you ever thought it looked real.

Mount me

Experimenting with proportional editing and increasing radius.

Started with a flat plane and just with a few tweaks I made some mountains. I added a subdivide and made them smoother. Perhaps they're too smooth for mountains.

What the fork!?

The fork tutorial was going great with the lattice deformation, but as soon as I added a subsurf it suddenly went like this! I think it may be down to the way I created the fork shape, but I understand the technique and will find it very useful, as long as I use it properly...

More Ideas

I am set on this idea of tube shapes making up objects, I will make a simple tree with sharp objects overlapping man made with natural.

I am undecided on the overall center piece but am considering creating a hut or perhaps a large tower. I think it may be amusing for the home to be smaller on the outside than on the inside, just like the Doctor Who tardis.

Mood Board...

With the assignment coming over the horizon it was important to get some ideas flowing so I gathered various imagery and colours that were to do with Sci-fi (the brief set) and things that I enjoyed.

WK 6 - Extrude Dup

Here I've created a tube like shape by extruding an original circle and gradually making it longer and adding directions to it.

I was really pleased with it and feel it would not look out of place in our sci fi assignment...

Here I've been experimenting with the "Extrude Dup" tool, which lengthens various vertices or shapes. I created a tower of cubes and then a grid like shape. But here I've extruded 1 vertice to make it into a fan like shape (top half) and then the bottom line of that into the shape on the left. It is an unusual but quite attractive little shape.

WK 6 - Multiple Textures

I experimented adding new textures to an object. It is also possible to add textures individually.